Quotes by Women Authors

Like I'm dragging bundles of old clothes? I'm carrying artifacts that breathe fire. I'm talking about a language of smoke. These are three-dimensional creatures that can mate. I'd no more leave them go by the side of the trail than I would my child. I'll carry them until someone amputates my arms.

Lips move; lips touch; lips signal. Lips are on the outside for show, and on the most secret inside of your mouth. Lips frame words that lie. Lips frame a hole that wants to be filled.

People do pretty ugly things to make themselves feel better, this I do know.

Mariah Fredericks

Never judge people by who they date — your own sex life is confusing enough without trying to figure out someone else's.

Kim Gruenenfelder

My son called to me that God was inside his red fire engine. He wanted to show me. I did move as fast as I could, spilling like water through the kitchen door into a summer day, but God had left by the time I got there. My son smiled, told me I'd missed him by seconds.

Isn't it sad that we only get upset about nasty things happening to people and places if television decides we should?

If it's easter than east and wester than west, it must be north.

Jessica Day George

We are the whirlwinds that winnow the West—
We scatter the wicked like straw!
We are the Nemeses, never at rest—
We are Justice, and Right, and the Law!

Margaret Ashmun

I think I only appear smart by staying quiet as often as possible.

If my hair gets any frizzier, I'll shave it to the scalp. Or light it on fire. Whichever is easier.

But one day, the things that make you free start to keep you down.

Jardine Libaire

A Man that wants Money thinks none can be unhappy that has it...

Susannah Centlivre

I see what grief does, how it strips you bare, shows you all the things you don't want to know. That loss doesn't end, that there isn't a moment where you are done, when you can neatly put it away and move on.

Elizabeth Scott (author)

The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again.

She had gradually changed her name. "Jane" was too dull. Last year, she'd added a "y", becoming Jayne, which had more personality.

Caroline B. Cooney

People always grumbled. If things went well they wanted them to go better. Give them comfort and they wanted luxuries.

Eleanor Hibbert

I imagined calling in to my own radio show: Yeah hi, I'm a werewolf, and I'm stuck in a cabin in the woods with another werewolf and a werewolf hunter...

If prayers worked, Hitler would have been stopped at the border of Poland by angels with swords of fire.

A garden is a human creation. It has to be thought of first, wished into being, planned for like a child.

Amy Stewart (writer)

Travelling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station'.

Lisa St Aubin de Terán

My main home is in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a college town in the Ozark Mountains. I live on the highest hill in a quiet cul-de-sac, surrounded by friends.

Ellen Gilchrist

But I am a-eppisodin' and a-eppisodin' to a length and depth almost onprecedented and onheard of - and to resoom and go on.

Marietta Holley

No," I said finally. "Slowness in Answering," she said into the handheld. "When's the last time you slept?" "1940" I said promptly, which is the problem with Quickness in Answering.

She took a deep breath, looking up at the ceiling for a long moment. A raindrop moved slowly down her neck; he watched as it turned down the slope of her breast to disappear inside the collar of her shirt. He was seriously contemplating becoming jealous of a droplet of water. Yorkshire was obviously damaging to his sanity.

I am beset with a dream of fair woman,
Lunatic for Venus flesh...